Lake

North Aral Sea

The Aral Sea shrank because its two feeder rivers were diverted to turn desert into cotton farms. By 2000 it was already a fraction of its 1960 extent.

Source: science.nasa.gov

Where it is

On the Atlas Quest map, the North Aral Sea label sits at 46.5° N, 60.8° E, in the Northern and Eastern Hemispheres.

Coordinates, names: Natural Earth, public domain.

Nearby places

The closest other places with pages here, measured between map label points:

• South Aral Sea — about 210 km south-west
• Tian Shan — about 1,500 km east
• Europe — about 1,800 km north-west
• Strait of Hormuz — about 2,300 km south

Play with it

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